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... existence , planted among the numerous sandhills , of all sizes and shapes , barely covered with long and coarse grass , which crown in double and triple lines the northern termi- nation of the peninsula or tongue of land previously al ...
... existence , planted among the numerous sandhills , of all sizes and shapes , barely covered with long and coarse grass , which crown in double and triple lines the northern termi- nation of the peninsula or tongue of land previously al ...
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... existence , are among these ranges of showy buildings ; all these have before , and about a hundred feet below them , the smooth and unruffled waves that wash the Cheshire coast , with the Irish ocean far visible on the left , and the ...
... existence , are among these ranges of showy buildings ; all these have before , and about a hundred feet below them , the smooth and unruffled waves that wash the Cheshire coast , with the Irish ocean far visible on the left , and the ...
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... existence since 1820 . The south front has a still nobler effect , with its new plate- glass , two in each window , and its massive frames richly gilded and recently ; besides a grander flight of steps in the centre , which has been ...
... existence since 1820 . The south front has a still nobler effect , with its new plate- glass , two in each window , and its massive frames richly gilded and recently ; besides a grander flight of steps in the centre , which has been ...
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... existence , which will command the attention of future visiters at Chats- worth , and to which the modern Parisiaus would unquestion- ably affix the title of " Serre Monstre . " It is a truly gigantic conservatory , in course of ...
... existence , which will command the attention of future visiters at Chats- worth , and to which the modern Parisiaus would unquestion- ably affix the title of " Serre Monstre . " It is a truly gigantic conservatory , in course of ...
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... existence . A ball or dancing room , highly decorated and with a carved ceiling , forms one of the ornaments of the hotel , and used once to be the scene of much hilarity and harmony . But music's sweet sounds are seldom heard now - a ...
... existence . A ball or dancing room , highly decorated and with a carved ceiling , forms one of the ornaments of the hotel , and used once to be the scene of much hilarity and harmony . But music's sweet sounds are seldom heard now - a ...
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Page 271 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 209 - And he took bread, and • gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Page 212 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
Page 209 - These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs; but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
Page 216 - Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men ; after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Page 282 - into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge are meted out in morsels and proverbs ; and, thus distributed, there is scarcely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich.
Page 44 - At another part of his work on the spas of England, he says, that "the efficacy of the Buxton waters used as baths at their natural temperature is more strikingly manifested in cases of general debility, partial paralysis, and that peculiar state of weakness which is the result of rheumatic affection and repeated attacks of gout. In the latter case, indeed, Buxton has acquired a wellknown reputation.
Page 278 - Of mighty Shakespeare's birth the room we see, That where he died in vain to find we try ; Useless the search— for all immortal he, And those who are immortal never die.
Page 281 - There is, perhaps, no one person of any considerable rate of mind who does not owe something to this matchless poet. He is the teacher of all good, — pity, generosity, true courage, love. His works alone (leaving mere science out of the question) contain, probably, more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out
Page 47 - I can conscientiously aver, from my extended experience of mineral waters" on the continent, "that persons afflicted" with the diseases named, " who require the aid of a suitable mineral water, will find that needful aid at Buxton, provided they abjure, on proceeding thither, the sad and interfering practice of constantly drugging their stomachs by way of treatment, and leave nature to nature alone, — namely, the mineral waters, and the pure, elastic, and bracing mountain air of the Spa.